10-11 Feb 2021 – extreme temperatures
A minimum of -19.7°C was recorded overnight [18-06] at Altnaharra. As half expected this has been eclipsed by one of -21.8°C from, Braemar announced …
Frost
Braemar v Altnaharra
I can’t monitor the temperature tonight at Braemar – because the Met Office only allows it’s paying customers to see them, so much for …
10 Feb 2021 – 12 UTC anomalies and temperatures
Another bitterly cold day across IONA with 12 UTC anomalies as low as -13.3°C at Altnaharra, and typically between -6 to -9°C below the …
Latest winter frost count
It is very close at the top of this years frost count table with the Aboyne frost hollow in the number one spot with …
The Great Freeze of 1900
The Great Freeze of 1900 – this is a new one on me. I saw mention of it in a graph of mortality rates …
8-9 January 2021 minimum temperatures
It was a close run thing but Dalhwinnie ended up being the coldest place last night. Who knows what the temperature would have got …
Another sharp/hard/severe frost at Glascarnoch
There was another sharp/hard/severe frost again at Loch Glascarnoch overnight with a minimum 0f -8.5°C [18-06] over 12 cm of snow they still have. …
Cold start to 2021
A dozen or sites just about managed to scrape an ice day on the strength of these 06-18 maximum temperatures yesterday. It was followed …
So this is what they mean by an “early frost”
I know we have a bit of a snow cover at the moment in Strathpeffer but the model the Met Office use for their …
As low as -6°C across the Highlands
A cold night across the snow covered Highlands of Sutherland and Ross-shire which the great and powerful Oz decided for some reason to exclude …
Another lovely autumnal morning across the Highlands
A large range of temperatures across the country this morning, with minima no lower than 11°C across the Islands, but close to freezing in …
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Rain in the south another frost for Scotland
Another beautiful clear and sunny, if not cold start to the day in the Highlands, we certainly need a good day to make up …
Alex could have always done a quick McKenzie in his head…
When is -6.6°C a touch of frost? When the Met Office say it is
Record cold night of 12/13th December 1981 at Shawbury
A look back at the record cold night of the 12/13th December 1981 at Shawbury, and how it may have been even colder if thickening cloud and wind hadn’t arrived late in the night.